South Africa: Supreme Court of Appeal Closes Another Door On Coal Mine in Mpumalanga Protected Area

On 9 July 2019, the President of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) dismissed Atha's latest attempt to appeal the High Court's decision to set aside permissions for a new coal mine inside a declared protected environment.

In November 2018, the High Court set aside the 2016 decisions of former Minister of Mineral Resources Mosebenzi Zwane and the late Minister of Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa to permit a new coal mine to be developed inside the Mabola Protected Environment near Wakkerstroom, Mpumalanga, with a punitive costs order against the state respondents.

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